{"id":11881,"date":"2026-06-20T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:50:00","slug":"power-outage-at-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-a-wake-up-call-for-nuclear-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11881","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant \u2014 A &#8220;Wake-up Call&#8221; for Nuclear Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<\/b> announced that the <b>nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia<\/b> lost its external power supply today for the 20th time since the start of the <b>military conflict in Ukraine<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <b>IAEA<\/b>, its team at the plant was informed that a problem with the internal power lines caused the latest disconnection of the only available line.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also reported that backup diesel generators were activated to ensure core cooling and other critical nuclear safety functions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, repairs to the main power line are continuing under a local ceasefire brokered by the IAEA, with its teams monitoring the work on both sides of the Dnieper River.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>IAEA<\/b> has been warning for months that the ongoing power outages pose a serious risk to nuclear safety, as the plant relies on backup generators to cool the reactors when the connection to the grid is lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost its external power supply today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}